1897 WILLIAM ELMSLIE WILKIE BROWN DEMPSTER, M.A.; ord. 9th Feb. 1897; adm. to Stronsay 11th April 1901.

1901 WILLIAM COCHRAN CONN, adm. 17th Sept. 1901; adm. to St John's, Glasgow, 18th Dec. 1902.

1905 JOHN MACLEAN, MA.; ord. 16th May 1905; adm. to Sandsting 11th May 1909.

HUMBIE, or KEITHHUMBIE.

[Previous to the Reformation the church belonged to the Abbey of Kelso. Keith Symmars and Keith -Hundeley were the ancient names.]

1566 WILLIAM FRANK, appointed in succession to Sir John Greenlaw, last vicar (Acts and Decreets, xxxviii., 455).

1572 JAMES MURRAY, exhorter.

1590 DAVID OGIL, M.A.; adm. 25th July 1590. In 1592 Keith-Marischal was under his charge; trans. to Bara in 1594.-[Reg. Assig., Pitcairn's Cr. Trials, i.]

1595  JOHN FORREST, M.A.; trans. from Prestonkirk; pres. to the vicarage by James VI., and adm. 21st Jan. 1595; trans. to Whitekirk before 1599.[Reg. Assig.]

l602 PATRICK CARKETTILL  [CARKETTLE], son of Patrick C. of Markle M.A. (Edinburgh, 28th July 1596); ord. to Soutra 1599; trans. to Stenton 1599; trans. and adm. in June 1602; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 2nd April 1603; died between 6th April 1616 and 20th Feb. 1617. He marr. Eliz., daugh. of Thomas Greig, min. of North Berwick (Reg. of Deeds, cxeix., 361-2), who survived him, and had issue-John, settled in Poland, one of whose descendants was Christopher Henry Karketle, bursar from the Synod of Lithuania to the Univ. of Edinburgh.-[Reg. Assig.; Inq. Ret. Edin., 726 - Wodrow's Anal., Calderwood's Hist.]

1617  JOHN COCKBURN, son of John C., burgess of Haddington, wheelwright and gunner in the Castle of Edinburgh; M.A. (St Andrews 1612); pres. by James VI. 30th Jan., and adm. by the Synod 4th Nov. 1617; inst. in March 1618. He dem. before 23rd Aug. 1648, on account of age and infirmity. He marr., and had a son James. - [Reg. Sec. Sig.; Stat. Reports, 1627.]

1646 THOMAS CHARTERIS, born 1616, fourth son of Henry C., Principal of the Univ. of Edinburgh; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (25th July 1635); called 19th April, and ord. (colleague) 6th Oct. 1646 ; died unmarr. between 27th June and 27th Oct. 1647. He left money for the purchase of baptismal and communion vessels.-[Craufurd's Hist. Unit. Edin., Edin. Reg. (Bapt.); Inq. Ret. Gen., 943.]

1649 JAMES CALDERWOOD, born 1624, son of William C., Dalkeith, and Marion Sadler; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (July 1642); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 9th Sept. 1647; ord, 28th March 1649; conforming to Episcopacy, he was pres. by Charles II. 4th Oct. 1662, and had a charter of the lands of Whitburgh (in the counties of Haddington and Midlothian) 27th June 1677; died between 17th July and 27th Nov. 1679. He marr. 10th Nov. 1663, Beatrix, daugh. of William Congalton of that ilk (Edin. Sas., vii., 325), who survived him, and had issue-Joanna (marr. 1683, Robert, brother of William Hepburn of Beanston); Margaret.-[Old Dec., iii.; Reg. Sec. Sig.; Inq. Ret. Haddingt., 347; Gen., 6481.]

1681  JAMES COOPER, son of William C., master of Aberdeen Grammar School; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1660); licen. by the Bishop of Edinburgh 16th Feb. 1663; adm. to Wigtown before 25th Oct. 1664; trans. to Mochrum before 22nd May 1667; pres. by John, Bishop of Edinburgh, trans. and adm. 30th June 1681; deprived in 1695; was inst. to the curacy of Holy Island same year; died in the beginning of 1701.